Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's

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From: The Ferret
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 00:00

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Steve Smith <steves@a4000.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In Article <4drn05$7pt@newsgate.dircon.co.uk> Nigel Reed writes:
>>Only ever had one or two, at the most, problems getting onto News...a
>>second retry always worked.

>I'm interested ... do they provide a full news feed?

	Not really and the news feed is a little quirky, as you will see from
my posts turning up about 48 hours after they're uploaded sometimes.
You can read all about it on tdc.general, complete with comments from
the staff.

>>Also, using POP3, you can get your mail anytime, anywhere - or choose
>>SMTP if you would rather.

>I'm even more interested.  If you take up the SMTP option, do you
>get a domain to yourself (like with Demon)?

	No. You just get somebody@dircon.co.uk. 

	BTW there is a rumour floating about on tdc.general that the company
is about to start giving away half a megabyte of web server space to
everyone.

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From: ferret@dircon.co.uk (The Ferret)
Subject: Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's
Date: 1996/01/23
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